Father embarrassed over viral video fame

A Perth father who's unwittingly become a global online star says he's embarrassed at the video which shows him chastising three drunken females at a McDonald's restaurant.

The video of the confrontation at the McDonald's branch at Innaloo, north of Perth, has swept around the world in the past 24 hours after being posted by another onlooker.

The two-minute video, which was filmed last Saturday night, shows three inebriated young women staggering around the restaurant, before one of them mounts the counter, with her short skirt leaving little to the imagination.

It is then the man decides to make his point, dragging the girl off the counter, and telling them to behave themselves.

The man, using the alias "John", told 6PR he had been shocked when his son had made him aware the incident had been filmed, posted, and subsequently viewed by tens of thousands on YouTube, and millions more on other websites.

"I am a little bit embarrassed about it, and I feel for the girls themselves, because the majority of comments on Facebook were not doing them much good," John said.

"Maybe I should not have done that, but I had got to a stage where I had had enough of it.

"It could have been a little bit threatening, and it is not the sort of thing that should be happening in a family restaurant."

UK tabloid The Sun posted the story and the video, under the headline: Flirty McDonald's girls branded 'pigs' by raging customer.

Website Reddit also picked up the video, causing it to be viewed by tens of thousands of readers.

John said on reflection, he would not intervene again, but felt something had to be done to support the staff and other customers, and stood by his description of the women.

"Should you do this all the time? I am not sure this is thing I would want to do again, or encourage people to do," John said.

"But don't go in a public place and spread your rubbish all over the place, and they were acting like pigs.

"The staff were threatened, and they asked them to stop. You have got to respect property, and respect yourselves.

"If it was my kids (made) that mess and I found out about it, I would make sure they were there for the next week cleaning that mess up."